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UCL GBSH are pleased to offer scholarship funding for our most talented applicants. Find out which scholarship and funding opportunities you are eligible for here.
The Global Business School for Health and UCL are committed to providing our talented students the ability to access targeted scholarship funds to ensure they can meet their potential. Our scholarships place a particular focus on supporting diversity in the healthcare leadership space having regional specific scholarships and those that support women and individuals from low and middle-income countries.
Self-funded candidates are considered for all scholarship schemes where they meet the eligibility criteria, entry requirements and application deadlines.
Global Business School for Health Scholarships
Roche UK MBA Health Scholarship
Summary
Amount is £65,000 - full tuition fees of £45,000 plus £20,000 for living expenses.
Roche UK has partnered with the UCL Global Business School for Health (UCL GBSH) to launch a new fully funded UCL MBA Health scholarship. The aim of this scholarship is to increase opportunities for exceptional candidates in underrepresented groups who historically have been less likely to apply to MBA programmes.
Eligibility requirements
- You must have been accepted on to the UCL MBA Health programme.
- You must be a resident of the UK
- Identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME)* background or as female.
- Come from a household in financial need (you will need to complete a financial information supporting form found below)
- You will have an interview with a Scholarship Panel
- You will need to submit a personal statement that addresses three questions (please limit answers to 500 words per answer):
- Tells us about your career/education/life journey that has led you to apply for the MBA Health
- Why should you be awarded this scholarship?
- How will completing this MBA Health help you meet your personal ambitions and your ambition to make a difference in health management?
*Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background refers to anyone with non-white heritage and individuals of mixed heritage who self-identify as coming from a BAME background
Download and complete the financial information support form.
How to apply
Candidates will need to ensure that they submit all documents completed by the scholarship closing date, along with the personal statement to our GBSH scholarships inbox below. Please ensure that you put in the subject line, “I would like to apply for the Roche MBA Health Scholarship”.
You will be notified if your application is successful after all applications have been reviewed.
Closing date: Applications for the Roche UK MBA Health Scholarship are now closed
EMBA Health Future Impact Leaders Scholarships
Summary
Up to £15,000, split as £7,500 over two years.
This scholarship is for exceptional students undertaking the Executive MBA Health programme. For this scholarship, applicants must plan to take the knowledge gained from the EMBA and make a real difference in the field of healthcare management on completion of the programme.
Eligibility requirements
- You must have been accepted on to the UCL EMBA Health programme.
- A strong overall application for the EMBA Health with excellence in all of the criteria.
- You will need to submit a 500-word essay to the EMBA admissions team that articulates how you plan to make a difference in health management upon completion of your degree.
How to apply
To be eligible to apply for this scholarship you must have submitted an application to the EMBA programme for 2024-25. To apply for the scholarship, simply email the following documents to the GBSH scholarships inbox below.
- CV
- 500 word essay
You will be notified if your application is successful by the GBSH admission teams and the awarded funds will be applied as a tuition discount at time of enrolment.
Closing date: Applications for EMBA Health Future Impact Leaders Scholarships are now closed
MBA Health Future Impact Leaders Scholarships
Summary
Amount up to £15,000
The GBSH Future Impact Leaders Scholarships are for exceptional students who want to pursue an MBA Health. We are looking for applicants who plan to take the knowledge and skills gained from their period of study and make a real difference in the society of their home country. This scholarship is only for those applying to the MBA Health programme.
Eligibility requirements
- You must have been accepted on to the MBA Health programme.
- A strong overall application for the MBA Health with excellence in all of the criteria.
- You will need to submit a 500 word essay to the MBA admissions team that articulates how you plan to make a difference in health management upon completion of your degree
How to apply
To be eligible to apply for this scholarship you must have submitted an application to the MBA programme for 2024-25. To apply for the scholarship, simply email the following documents to the GBSH scholarships inbox below.
- CV
- 500 word essay
You will be notified if your application is successful by the GBSH admission teams and the awarded funds will be applied as a tuition discount at time of enrolment.
Closing date: Applications for MBA Health Future Impact Leaders Scholarships are now closed
MSc Global Healthcare Leaders Scholarship
Summary
Amount Up to £5,000
The Global Healthcare Leaders Scholarship is for students who have applied to our MSc programmes who show exceptional leadership potential in their fields, and who want to make a difference in healthcare.
Eligibility requirements
- Applicable to students studying one of our MSc programmes - MSc Biotech and Pharmaceutical Management, MSc Global Healthcare Management with routes and MSc Digital Health and Entrepreneurship
- A strong overall application with excellence in all of the criteria
- You will need to submit a 500-word essay to the GBSH admissions team that articulates how you will make a difference in healthcare.
How to apply
To be eligible to apply for this scholarship you must have submitted an application to one of our MSc programmes for 2024-25 entry. To apply for the scholarship, simply email the following documents to the GBSH scholarships inbox below.
- CV
- 500 word essay
You will be notified if your application is successful by the GBSH admission teams and the awarded funds will be applied as a tuition discount at time of enrolment.
Closing date: Applications for MSc Global Healthcare Leaders Scholarship are now closed
Women Healthcare Leaders Scholarship
Summary
Amount up to £5,000
The GBSH Women Healthcare Leaders Scholarships are for female students who demonstrate leadership potential. We want to prepare you to move into a senior management or C-suite role given that the glass ceiling is still very much in place in health and healthcare professions. Research confirms that women are the primary consumers of healthcare as well as the workforce, but they remain underrepresented in leadership roles.
The recipients of these scholarships will also be provided with leadership coaching and high-impact leadership training as part of their scholarship.
Eligibility criteria
- Applicants must be female, and have applied for either the MBA Health or MSc programmes to be considered for this funding.
- A strong overall application with excellence in all of the criteria.
- You will need to submit a 500-word essay to the GBSH admissions team that articulates your leadership potential in healthcare.
How to apply
To be eligible to apply for this scholarship you must have submitted an application to either the MBA Health or MSc programmes for 2024-25 entry. To apply for the scholarship, simply email the following documents to the GBSH scholarships inbox below.
- CV
- 500 word essay
You will be notified if your application is successful by the GBSH admission teams and the awarded funds will be applied as a tuition discount at time of enrolment.
Closing date: Applications for Women Healthcare Leaders Scholarship are now closed
UCL East London Scholarship
Summary
Amount is home tuition fees and £15,700 maintenance payment.
The scholarship works to support the ambitions of east Londoners by funding the fees and living costs of eligible Master's programmes at UCL. There are 10 scholarships available in 2024/25. Two awards will be ringfenced for eligible final year UCL undergraduates.
Eligiblity requirements
- Be ordinarily resident in the UK or Ireland and eligible to pay Home fee rate
- Have submitted an admission application for a full-time, part-time or modular/flexible Master's degree at UCL beginning in 2024/25 for one of the specified programmes – eligible programmes list.pdf.
- Been continually resident for the last five years (since 2019), or have completed GCSE or A-levels, in the following east London boroughs:
- Hackney
Newham
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest
Candidates who meet all of those criteria must also meet one of the following criteria:
- Be a current UCL undergraduate student in your final year (during 2023/24) and in receipt of the UCL Undergraduate Bursary for this year, OR
- A current undergraduate final-year student at another university with a household income of £42,875 or less, OR
- Be a graduate who is unemployed or who has a weekly salary of less than £581.30 a week.
Scholarship recipients are obliged to inform the UCL Student Funding Office immediately of any other funding they are awarded towards their UCL Master’s degree studies, before or subsequent to the UCL East London Scholarship being awarded.
The bursary is awarded on the basis of financial need and upon the recommendation of the Student Funding Office. UCL recognises the following as impactors of financial need: dependent children, disabilities, experience of care, receiving state benefits, forced migration (refugee, asylum seeker, those who have been granted a temporary form of leave as the result of an asylum or human rights application).
How to apply
You should have submitted an application to an eligible UCL programme (including the submission of references) before applying for this scholarship.
Closing Date: 5pm BST, Thursday 20 June 2024